Schrecke
German, noun
Schrecke is spelled S-C-H-R-E-C-K-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 102,515th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schrecke is a German feminine noun meaning “locust, grasshopper” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, schrecke is a different word: “first-person singular present”.
What does Schrecke mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininelocust, grasshopper
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- 3
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
suffix: 1. Namenbestandteil verschiedener Insekten aus den Ordnungen der Fangschrecken (Mantodea), Langfühlerschrecken (Ensifera), Kurzfühlerschrecken (Caelifera) und Gespenstschrecken (Phasmatodea)
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Schrecke
- Schrecken plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Schrecke in German?
Schrecke appears about once in every 4 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).